Uber drivers have been declared
employees for unemployment purposes. U.S. intelligence warns that
Gmail’s latest update puts 1.4 billion users at risk. And a German
academic researching e-transfer app Venmo learned way more than she
wanted to.

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Toronto’s tech scene is hot -
even hotter than San Francisco. Uber is being sued by London cab
drivers for more than one billion pounds. And streaming services
like Netflix and Spotify may soon be included in the U.S.’s
emergency alert system.